I didn't stop driving completely, I just traded in for a hybrid...

Kidding!

When I'm home on the weekends I prefer to run errands on my bike, but during the week, I have a 20 mile commute along a highway that would be suicide for any pedestrian or bicyclist who illegally chose to traverse it.

I dont actually have a drivers license at all, i use my bicycle, which i have for many different kinds, a good carbon fiber road bike, couple of single speeds and one standard 7 speed that nobody doesnt want to steal.

i bought my first car this fall; i'm 49. i walked/biked/bussed for decades because i was poor. my little putt-putt gets me to all kinds of farmer's markets and an farm that butchers their own cattle.

Yeah, when I moved to the small town where the university is, that was also the perfect opportunity to abandon my car. But instead of walking, the prehistoric part of me decided to buy a single-speed-bike and that's all I need. No jam, no expensive fuel and no front window between me and mother nature ;)

I don't own a car. I told my parents that I didn't want one when I went to college, or when I graduated college. I walk or use transit. After I finish grad school, I don't see myslef using a car often.

I live close to my classes, and walk to them every time. I wear Vibrams when it is colder, though I often barefoot. The smiles of people at me barefooting in November were great. I hope up to keep up with stuff like that. It makes me feel closer to the earth, even in a massive urban environment.

I'm back in the car now living out in a burb with a kiddo. But when I lived in the city I sold my car, not to be paleo per se, but because I thought it was making me lazy, and finding a parking spot was more of a pain in the butt than it was worth.

I bought a bicycle, and turned my mostly downhill 2 mile commute into an adrenalin pumping thrill ride (honestly, it is amazing I didn't get squished by a bus or hit by a car). Getting home in the evening was hard work getting back up the hill, steep enough to have to stand up on the pedals even in the granny gear, but ending the work day with an exhausted giddy endorphin high was worth it.

If you live close enough to get what you need without a car, I can think of no better way to travel than on foot or bicycle, it just fits the human scale of experience much better than a car, and doesn't leave me with that feeling of the world passing me by like I get when I spend too much time driving.

4 years ago I gave my 7 passenger luxury SUV statusmobile to my mum. She lived in the wintery burbs and needed reliable wheels. Ok maybe not so the benevolent son, as she did take over the lease...

The past 4 years have been wonderful. I walk, train, bus and I get along just fine. The store where I do most shopping is about a 10 minute walk. My friends who drive the same distance cannot fathom that I do this regularly. Meanwhile, by the time they circle the lot to find the best space in front, shop, then load their take into their car I am nearly halfway home.

Of course I do use a car share when I need a car, but life has been better for it. As a mammal I know that we should be walking X distance per day, and since I do my hunting and gathering from a computer monitor it is essential that walk. Often. Did I mention my canine companion? She keeps me walking an additional 3 hours per day. Rain or sleet or snow or shine.

We have not sold our car, but we are a family that is intentionally living with only one car. We make lots of lifestyle choices to make this work - I stay at home, we live close enough that my husband can take transit or even walk to his office, and we have to plan our week more carefully. We also intentionally live close enough to the library that I can walk there with the stroller on nice days.

I traded in my car for a small pickup last year. I walk for most everything, but work is too far and the weather's too awful to ride a bike. I also putter around with a farm an hour's drive away from here.

We sold our minivan to my husband's brother, so that he could have a vehicle to accommodate their toddler twins. My husband can walk to work. I just wish our remaining car wouldn't have decided to quit working properly.

I would if I could, but I gotta have something to transport my kids when I have them. Otherwise, my little 4-door sits in the driveway most of the time since I work from home.

I am actually about to get a bike I can use to take rides up to the local grocery and such. Minimalism is something I had been delving into for a little while since before I started Paleo and over the last two years I have slowly been getting rid of everything I don't absolutely need.

I have come to realize I don't NEED a car except for the kids, and I wish I could let it go. If you can get by without one, I say go for it!

Where I live it is much cheaper to use the transport, so that's great. I catch a single bus to university and then I'm set! I also use my bike to go from here to there, but I would like to get a cheaper one that no one is likely to steal.

I admit there's a bit of pride associated with all of this. Folks often tell me I'm weird for eschewing the most convenient form of transportation. But I love how I get to walk everywhere, or bike, or sit and be with other strangers and talk with them. I was always a bit afraid of cars, and I think the smell and sight of them is depressing.

My family has lived without a car at various points in our life for both financial and health reasons, but it hasn't been possible since going paleo, as we currently live too far from town for relying totally on foot/bike transport to be practical. I do recommend it if you think your life might allow for it - at the very least, it's a good exercise in making do and problem solving.

The closest I've come to walking to work barefoot was rollerblading to work and forgetting to bring a pair of shoes along to change into.

There's a time and place for being carless, such as when you live in town or near shopping and hiking trails.

We live in the country in northern BC about a 20 minute drive to the nearest store, uphill both ways. Then we drive all the way down to central Mexico every fall and back every spring.

I will never sell our vehicle no matter how Paleo I get!

I left my car at home (moved across the country) with my little brother, but does not renewing my metro/bus pass count? Currently walk everywhere (ice+bike=scary), but I am a university students, so "everywhere" just means grocery, school, library, coffee shop, gym, and occasional recreation! Love getting outside, let's me log some podcast time as well!

Yes there was a time when I decided to go paleo and got rid of the old chevy monza I had since high school. It was around a month without my old jalopy and things were getting too blistered in the foot! It was then I started hitch hiking, riding the green line (bus service) and even asking work car pools for transportation.

Eventually the saga came to an end when I found out that I had enough to get a Firebird (used) from a good bargain site - http://www.automotix.net/bargain_cars/for_sale.html From that time I have not been into much walking since I love this car and have given up the ghost on going paleo!